The conference at the University of Ghana (UG) is being sponsored by the CNNA to address various pressing issues bothering the ordinary Ghanaian, a statement from the CNNA and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday stated.

The statement said the conference would be chaired by Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah, the former Vice-Chancellor of the UG with Dr Thomas Mensah, the co-inventor of fibre optics technology, as the Guest Speaker.

Other speakers include Mr Sam E.  Mensah, the Former Chairman of Ghana Stock Exchange, Dr Nicholas Atampugre, Dr Benjamin Anyagre, Mr Anis Haffar, Prof Raymond Osei, Prof Cynthia Hewitt, Mr George Baffour, Mr Ekow Duncan and Mr John Yaw Opoku.

The speakers will engage participants in a self-examination discourse on issues pertaining to economics, politics, youth and women and the relevance of Nkrumah’s ideas in solving the problems confronting Ghana today.

Mr Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, the Local Organiser of the CNNA, said the main objective of the conference was to prepare the ground for the younger generation to take over.

“We expect every Ghanaian to see this convention as a gathering of the young generation to examine their future in the present because a nation is near collapse when the vast majority of its youth wake up in the morning with nothing to look forward to,” he said.

Mr Addai-Sebo said the older generation have disappointed the younger generation who are seeking for an alternative, hence falling back on some ideas Nkrumah left behind was the best alternative for Ghanaians adding, Nkrumah has become the cornerstone that the builders rejected.

The CNNA is a group of Ghanaians who advocate social and economic justice for all Ghanaians, as expressed by Dr Kwame Nkrumah through his many writings such as ‘I Speak of Freedom’, ‘Consciencism’, ‘Africa Must Unite’, ‘Dark Days in Ghana’ and the actualisation of his well-planned development programmes.

Prof Thaddeus Ulzen, the Chairman of CNNA, said in the statement that, modernised versions of Dr Nkrumah's vision and ideals were necessary for any chance of redemption for the suffering masses of in the country.

The statement said there is the need for government to create and distribute opportunities equitably in order to establish and maintain social and economic justice for all Ghanaians.CNNA said the vision and ideals expressed by Ghana's first President Dr Nkrumah and co-President of Guinea, through his many writings, development plans and praxis, provides adequate promise of opportunities for the redemption, self-reliance and self-liberation of all Ghanaians.

CNNA also noted that though Nkrumah’s works are studied all over the world, the case was different in Ghanaian institutions of higher learning and considers it an intellectual tragedy.